Subtly alters photos

The app looks as great as it does in the screenshots, but as other reviewers have said, it could really use support for hotkeys, and it would be great if the feed refreshed automatically. Currently, when you get a notification for a new image, you have to open the app and manually refresh the feed, and because there are not hotkeys, this means you actually have to click the home icon in the toolbar, which is more tedious than it might sound. It would also be nice to view even larger pictures, as the current maximum size is still fairly small on a 30” display.

But perhaps the most annoying thing about Grids is that it alters the colors of every photo you view through it. Contrast is slightly higher, and the color temperature is a bit warmer, making yellows and reds more saturated. It’s a subtle difference that might be easy to miss, but view an image side by side with its downloaded version and it becomes glaringly obvious. I know a lot of Instagram photographers pay a lot of attention to these details in their photos, so this developer’s efforts to “touch up” everyone’s work for them is annoying and not appreciated, whatever their intentions might be.

Fleedar about Grids for Instagram